Make sure spending is transparent

3:27 PM,
Mar. 14, 2014

Richard Eckstrom, South Carolina Comptroller General

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Richard Eckstrom

This is "Sunshine Week," an annual observance of open-government laws. This is a time to remind government officials about important laws that require meetings to be held in the open and public records to be made available to citizens who request them. Sunshine Week aims to advance the idea that government works best when the sun is permitted to shine in.

I use the occasion to promote a kind of "sunlight" that's particularly important to me - spending transparency. Just as public officials seem to make better decisions when those decisions are made in the open, they're more accountable with ...